Best Mining Companies in Chile
The 57 best Mining companies in Chile in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ceibo.
Chile's Mining sector has 57 companies on our radar, and the $53M in total disclosed funding tells only part of the story. Ceibo leads the pack at $30M, with TI Mining at $14M a clear second. After that the numbers drop fast: ENVIS at $6M, Scarab at $4M, and then a long tail of early-stage players. So where's the real heat? Analytics tools, mine inspection protocols, mineral tenure disputes, and diamond drilling are all pulling attention this quarter, and coverage across the sector is visibly rising. Globally, tightening liability rules around illegal operations are pushing the whole industry toward better compliance infrastructure, which you can feel in Chile's growing appetite for inspection and analytics startups.
I'd watch the investor mix here as a signal. Aurus, ChileGlobal Ventures, Scotiabank, Alpha Future Funds, and Audley Capital are the most active backers, and that blend of local venture money alongside a major bank suggests the sector's moving beyond pure exploration bets. Meanwhile, fresh capital flows into metals and mining are broadening who's paying attention to the space. No unicorns yet in Chile's cohort, but the momentum in tooling and data plays is building the foundation for something bigger.
Our analysis of 100 Mining companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 82% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Mining companies in Chile
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Market signals (1y) | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ceibo Company offering copper extraction technology | $30M | 35 mo ago | Series B | Cristobal Undurraga Co-Founder & CEO | 2007 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | 25 patents Advanced refractory copper ore pre‑treatment and leaching technologies | — |
| 2 | TI Mining IoT and digital twin based solution for mining industry | $14M | 32 mo ago | Series B | Carlo Calderón Becerra Co-Founder & Cto | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — | — |
| 3 | ENVIS Provider of environmental monitoring and consulting services to multiple industries | $6M | 241 mo ago | Acquired | Nelson Garcia Founder | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+9 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Scarab Provider of field survey and research & development services | $4M | 94 mo ago | Series A | Michael Baynard Founder | 2018 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | AndeXGold Provider of gold & silver exploration and development services | $105K | 39 mo ago | Seed | Paul Champagne CEO | 2022 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Mineral Forecast Provider of AI-powered geoscience platform for mineral exploration optimization | $20K | 34 mo ago | Seed | Javier Gonzalez Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Codelco Producer of copper and copper by-products | — | 6 mo ago | Funding Raised | Juan Duclos CEO & President | 1971 | SwiperSlickjQuery+8 | 19 signals ▼77% Contracts · Earnings · Leadership | — | — |
| 8 | CAP Producer of iron minerals and pellets | — | 32 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1946 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — | — | — |
Top 10 Mining companies in Chile
#1
Series B · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2007 · 50 employees$30Mraised▾
Company offering copper extraction technology. Its copper extraction technology provides sustainable and low-carbon mining operations. It helps the mining industry to increase copper production while reducing the environmental impact.
#2
Series B · Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2017 · 84 employees$13.8Mraised▾
TI Mining provides IoT and digital twin-based software solutions for the mining industry. Products include Aris (surveillance and analysis solution for the geotechnical stability of the infrastructure of a mining site that includes pit, dumps, leaching piles, tailings dams & more), SICT (a system for monitoring, control & evaluation of the slope construction process), Orchestra (analysis and simulation platform for the cargo and transportation process for open-pit mines), Tangram (platform for ion management, 3D visualization and analysis of the geotechnical-structural model), and Holo (holographic visualization solution of geospatial information about mining processes). Clients include Teck, Rio Tinto, KGHM and more.
- Oct 2023Series B$10M
- Mar 2020Series A—
- Aug 2019Series A$3.8M
#3
Acquired · Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2006 · 42 employees$6Mraised▾
Developer of software for reducing the power consumed by electronic devices. The company helps to reduce power consumption in SoC designs, delivering competitive, cost, and time to market advantages for applications spanning wireless, consumer, computing, networking, telecommunications, gaming, entertainment and automotive.
#4
Series A · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2018$3.5Mraised▾
Developer of a mining technology designed to generate value from the residues of the mining industry. The company's technology is dedicated to reducing or eliminating waste from the mining industry sustainably, by recovering valuable elements from them and thereby facilitating the development of environmental liabilities, enabling organizations in the mining industry to not only generate value for waste but also reduce the detrimental impact of waste materials on the environment.
#5
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2022 · 2 employees$105Kraised▾
Provider of gold & silver exploration and development services
#6
Seed · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2014 · 10 employees$20Kraised▾
Provider of AI-powered geoscience platform for mineral exploration optimization. The company delivers solutions that help geologists identify exploration targets, optimize drilling sites, and improve mining operations through predictive analytics and algorithmic recommendations. Its platform offers 2D/3D geological modeling, statistical analysis, and real-time insights for early and advanced exploration, mine site optimization, and deposit discovery. Services include site monitoring, data integration, risk assessment, and project organization. Solutions support a range of minerals and mining operations, using machine learning models to enhance decision-making, accuracy, and resource efficiency.
#7
Funding Raised · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 1971 · 50000 employees$204.2Mraised▾
Producer of copper and copper by-products. It maximizes the economic, environmental, and social value of its operations, contributing sustainably to the state. The company operates several mines utilizing both open-pit and underground methods. Processing includes refining to produce copper cathodes. The company publishes financial and operational results, along with sustainability reports.
#8
Funding Raised · Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 1946 · 4132 employees—raised▾
Producer of iron minerals and pellets
#9
Funding Raised · Iquique, Tarapaca · founded 1999—raised▾
Mining and exploration company focused on copper minerals
#10
Acquired · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 1968 · 4921 employees—raised▾
SQM produces and markets specialty plant nutrition products, iodine and derivatives, lithium and derivatives, industrial chemicals, and potassium. Its specialty plant nutrition products comprise potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, sodium potassium nitrate, and specialty blends that are used in various agricultural techniques, such as hydroponics, fertigation, greenhouses, and foliar applications. It also provides boric acid, thermo-solar salts, and potassium chloride for use in manufacturing glass, explosives for mining, civil works, and treating metals; potassium chloride and potassium sulfate for agricultural and industrial uses. In 2022, the company recorded annual revenues of $10.79B and a net profit of $3.94B.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Mining coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Mining Technology is moving in Chile
A read on the academic research around Mining Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 34 Chile-affiliated papers.
- Universidad Católica del Norte7
- Universidad de Antofagasta6
- Federico Santa María Technical University6
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso5
- Arturo Prat University4
- Mineral processing12
- Tailings6
- Mineral4
- Comminution3
- Sulfide minerals3
- Mineral processing6
- Dewatering2
- Greenhouse gas2
- Tailings2
- Truck2
Where mining tech is researched across Chile
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.